Ukraine in the UN security Council: the invaders want to destroy the identity of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars
The Ukrainian delegation called upon members of the UN security Council when considering the situation in the Russian occupied Crimea and Donbas to pay attention to the observance of human rights in the temporarily controlled territories aggressor.
This was stated at a meeting of the UN security Council in new York Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Sergiy Kyslytsya, writes UKRINFORM.
“The occupation authorities commit widespread and systematic human rights violations and seeks to destroy the identity of Ukrainians and the indigenous inhabitants of the Peninsula – the Crimean Tatars and other ethnic and religious groups,” said Sorrel.
Deputy foreign Minister of Ukraine said that according to UN resolutions, the “Crimean residents are protected persons under the Geneva conventions and the existing treaties on human rights”. Also, the UN observer mission repeatedly documented crimes committed during the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Sorrel added that the occupiers are trying to avoid punishment “during the internal civil wars, as is happening in Syria, or to avoid responsibility for trying the illegal annexation of foreign territories, like Russia did with the Crimea, as well as during its military aggression in the Donbas.”
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We will remind, on April 13, security forces detained eight people in the areas of compact residence of the Crimean Tatars in Bakhchisarai. Investigative measures was accompanied by a scuffle and warning shots into the air. In a press-service of the so-called “interior Ministry of Crimea” reported that employees of bodies of internal Affairs carried out the planned activities to identify and detain the persons involved in the activities of “Hizb ut-Tahrir”.